LARWOOD’S FEAR.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 227, 24 August 1938, Page 9

LARWOOD’S FEAR.

MAY NEVER PLAY AGAIN.

LONDON, Aug. 10. H. Larwood, the famous Nottinghamshire fast bowler, fears that he may never be able to play cricket again, an injured knee being the cause. “The knee just won’t mend, Larwood told the Daily Mirror He said he believed the injury was due to tiie bard Australian wickets. . “I had the same trouble occasionally last season,” Larwood added, “but I now seem to have got it for good.

Larwood, who is 33 years old could not have been expected to ast much longer as a fast bowler even had he not hurt a knee, says a Sydney critic He toured Australia in 1928-9 and again in 1932-3. He played ,n 15 Test matches' against • Australia here and in England, and secured 64 wickets at an average cost of 30.62. Me scored 386 runs, his average being 19.30, 'and his highest score 98-made in Svdney on tlie 1932-u tour. Larwood became notorious through

the “body-line” bowling campaign on his second tour of Australia. His outbursts in the Press and in public when he returned to England caused him to be dropped out of Test cricket. Apart from the unfortunate happenings on the 1932-3 tour, however, Larwood will always rank among the greatest fast bowlers cricket has known. He was not only very fast, but he had remarkable control of length and direction, and he had made a science of fast bowling. In his prime lie was an able, if inconsistent, batsman and a splendid fieldsman. He was a real cricketer.